Lunar Festival 2009 (Jan 24 - Feb 12) - Quest Guide + Information!

Welcome back readers! It's time for the Lunar Festival, so everyone break out the fireworks, show a little respect for your Elders, and come celebrate the new year!

The Lunar Festival is held every year starting on a date that typically coincides with the Chinese New Year. In 2009, the Lunar Festival will run from January 24 - February 12. The festival is celebrated by the druids of Moonglade with great fireworks and festive attire. Ancestors of Azeroth are praised and honored by both Horde and Alliance, who then reward players with reputation and Pièce des ancêtres that can be used to purchase festive garb, patterns and fireworks! Also, higher level players will be able to earn a new player title - Elder!

Le feu d'artifice lunaireStart & End:Lunar Festival HarbingerTo complete this quest you must purchase fireworks from a nearby Lunar Festival Vendor and use them nearby. The large fireworks clusters (such as Chapelet de fusées bleues) will require use of a firework launcher, which can be found on the ground around the main Lunar Festival camps. Simply purchase and fire off the specified quantity of fireworks and return the quest to pick up the follow-up. You will receive a Invitation à la fête lunaire which can be used to teleport to Moonglade by using it while standing in the 'Greater Moonlight' (a huge, white beam of light located in the main Festival camps). Once in Moonglade, you can teleport back to any major faction city by standing in the correct beam (which are distinguished by racial revelers around each beam). This invitation does have a duration but you can get a new one from the Lunar Festival Harbinger at any time during the festival.

La bénédiction d'ÉluneStart & End:Valadar StarsongThis quest is actually flagged as a 'Raid' quest in-game, though it shouldn't take very many level 60 or higher players at all to complete. Simply purchase (or acquire through quests or crafting) some rocket clusters from a Lunar Festival Vendor and head down to the Stormrage Barrow Dens in Moonglade (Southeast of Lake Elune'ara). Fire off the fireworks in the nearby cluster launchers to alert the Minions of Omen to your presence. You can use the Chandelle d'Élune obtained from La chandelle d'Élune or purchased for 10 silver from Valadar Starsong to do additional damage to the Minions and Omen himself. Continue firing off rockets and defeating the Minions and eventually the demon Omen will spawn. He is a ?? raid boss so his actual level will most likely be 3 levels higher than the average level of your raid group. Even still, he is not a very difficult boss (detailed information on fighting him can be found here). Upon defeating Omen, you must be near his corpse to obtain the Bénédiction d'Elune buff required to complete the quest. Receive the buff and return to Valadar to complete the quest, which rewards the nifty Lanterne d'Élune which can turn Pierre solide into Pierre d'Élune - not amazing, but still pretty cool!

Festival Coin of Ancestry Redemption

In previous years, Pièce des ancêtres were turned in via quests for festive rewards. In 2009, however, Valadar Starsong and Fariel Starsong in Moonglade now serve as vendors selling items using the Pièce des ancêtres as currency. All of the items they sell are now Bind of Pickup. While you can obtain a maximum of 75 Pièce des ancêtres per year, they have no duration so if you have some left over from a previous year's Festival you can use them to obtain more rewards.

There are achievements obtainable by finding and honoring all of the elders in a particular area. This list is sorted via the achievement zones in order to make working on each achievement in an area easier. Please note that unless an elder is part of the Elders of the Dungeons achievement, any elder found located at an instance (such as Zul'Gurub) is not actually inside the instance, but rather outside or around the area. It's also worth mentioning that because of some dungeon level requirements, lower level characters may not be able to visit all Elders. Because of the inclusion of a Wrath of the Lich King Heroic dungeon Elder this year, the minimum level to honor every elder is 80.

Elders of KalimdorFor this achievement, you must honor all 21 Elders found throughout Kalimdor. For Elder locations, refer to the list above!

Elders of NorthrendFor this achievement, you must honor all 18 Elders found throughout Northrend (and, incidentally, you must also have the Wrath of the Lich King expansion). For Elder locations, refer to the list above!

Elders of the DungeonsFor this achievement, you must honor all 13 Elders found inside various dungeons of Eastern Kingdoms, Kalimdor and Northrend. This achievement will be impossible for lower level players to complete because of instance level requirements. The absolute minimum level necessary to complete this achievement is level 80. For Elder locations, refer to the list above!

Elders of the AllianceFor this achievement, you must honor all 3 Elders located in major Alliance cities. As the elders are friendly to both factions, this achievement is able to be completed by both Horde and Alliance players.

Elders of the HordeFor this achievement, you must honor all 3 Elders located in major Horde cities. As the elders are friendly to both factions, this achievement is able to be completed by both Horde and Alliance players.

Lunar Festival FineryTo complete this achievement, you must purchase either a festive pant suit or festive dress with Pièce des ancêtres obtained from honoring the Elders. The festival clothing can be purchased in Moonglade for 5 Pièce des ancêtres. There are three different dresses and three different pant suits that can be purchased, so you can get all of them to complete your very own Lunar Festival wardrobe (though the achievement does only require one). The clothing is Bind on Pickup, but items can be purchased by characters of any level so this is a great opportunity to deck out your bank alt in style!

Commentaire de Asator

Commentaire de BobCharabini

Thanks wowhead! :DThis should help out with mah Elder hunting tomorrow. :P

Commentaire de Felet

on 2009-01-23T17:00:10-06:00

Great guide, all we need now is a list of the WotLK-instance Elders so cross your fingers that some PTR people see this guide =)

Commentaire de prupparna

on 2009-01-23T17:05:52-06:00

Cool guide! Big thanks plus hugs to you, Miyari for taking the time and writing this!

Commentaire de Ghostlight

on 2009-01-23T17:13:31-06:00

Small correction to the guide - Elder Muraco is actually at 64, 51 in Storm Peaks by Camp Tunka'lo.

E: Elder Bluewolf is inside the Wintergrasp Fortress at 49,14. So you will have to control Wintergrasp to talk to him.

Commentaire de Blackboy0

on 2009-01-23T17:42:16-06:00

Woot, love this =D Thank you for posting the location of Elders and everything!

Commentaire de SoniStreet

on 2009-01-23T18:06:37-06:00

Thx for the imba guide <3

On EU it won't start until 6am but i'm learning them by hearth now :)

Commentaire de Sino

on 2009-01-23T18:14:17-06:00

祝贺中国!

Happy Chinese New Year!Happy Lunar Festival!

祝贺中国

Commentaire de gsgfdf

on 2009-01-23T18:25:19-06:00

Thanks a million for spoiling us again,doing all the hard work for us.These guides are great and something i always look forward for every time a world event hits the servers.Big gratz and keep up the good work:D

Commentaire de Interest

on 2009-01-23T18:29:23-06:00

Fantastic guide. This will surely help me get my title!

Commentaire de hellmare

on 2009-01-23T18:32:22-06:00

Awesome guide. Great work =D

Commentaire de Reunilana

on 2009-01-23T19:12:23-06:00

Time to kite Omen again trought whole azeroth.

Commentaire de Ketho

on 2009-01-23T21:00:50-06:00

祝贺中国 literally translates "Congratulate China" and its used wrong~~

新年快乐恭喜发财祝大家牛年春节快乐 2009 Year of the Ox

Commentaire de Koot

on 2009-01-23T21:21:53-06:00

I always find these guides very helpful and insightful. Thanks to those who put in all the time and effort into these. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to prepare for Elder hunting season. =)

Commentaire de Daggertooth

on 2009-01-23T21:24:34-06:00

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO 18! Ty for the guide, it'll really help.

Commentaire de Nyoron

on 2009-01-23T22:15:10-06:00

Well my sub ends in 2 days and it wont be coming up for a while, glad to know it will be pretty simple this time around

Commentaire de Mousa

on 2009-01-23T23:10:41-06:00

I was sooo looking forward to this! My first Lunar festival! And your guides dear wowhead, rocksss once again!

Commentaire de RGsweden

on 2009-01-23T23:14:56-06:00

wanna get this done as soon as possible and ofc cause of that they have to restart the servers from 5 am. to 10 am. :( Hoping it won't be for that long

Commentaire de GrizzlyUK

on 2009-01-23T23:56:27-06:00

Elders of the Alliance

2. Elder Hammershout found at in Stormwind City

Found in the Park District, . I don't have the precise co-ords, but as I remember he's standing in the middle of the druid training area.